KING
OF MISSISSIPI - AMERICAN - 1868
Riverboats were jacks of all trades. They served as the lifeline
for cotton and inland trade, towed barges and ferried railroad
trains across the river. As passenger boats, they helped to
shrink the vastness of America, and as showboats, they made
that vastness a little less lonely. King of Mississippi was
the very first one of this type in the United States. This
authentic Mississippi Paddlewheel Steamboat reminds us of
Mark Twain's famous literary characters, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry
Finn. They carried cotton and inland trade, towed barges and
ferried railroad trains across rivers. Mark Twain would need
to look twice at this “King of the Mississippi”
to be sure it was just a model!
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